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We're coming off of our Summer Game Fest-related high, toting a bunch of news from publisher-driven events that occurred after we published our last episode. For starters, the Xbox Showcase... showcased... 28 games in total, of which 24 are coming to PlayStation 5, including State of Decay 3, Senua, and Spyro: A Realm Beyond (not to mention release dates for Halo: Combat Evolved and Fable). But Xbox's peculiar, wishy-washy, and inconsistent behavior likewise makes us wonder what the future might hold for Microsoft releases on Sony's hardware, especially because Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution -- both internally slated to migrate to PlayStation 5 until very recently -- won't appear at all. Meanwhile, Nintendo's newest Direct also had some interesting fodder, including a surprise look at Kingdom Hearts IV, a brand new 2D-HD game in the form of Final Fantasy Resonance, and more. Other news this week revolves around Persona 4 Revival and Persona 6, a new Crazy Taxi adventure in the form of World Tour, a promising magic shooter called Magicians: The Devil's Deal, a fall release date for Castlevania: Belmont's Curse, and extremely strong sales figures for Yacht Club's Mina the Hollower. We wrap things up (as always) with listener inquiries! Now that everything has settled, what are our three most-anticipated games, respectively? Should Sony bite the bullet and greenlight Destiny 3? Where's Naughty Dog hiding? Is Colin falling prey to Big Plumber and Big Sewer propaganda by refusing to flush wipes? Timestamps:00:00 - Intro

08:01 - Letters for Dustin

14:59 - From the PO Box

27:49 - LSM's big week

29:08 - When she likes Sacred...

33:03 - World Cup

48:26 - Going to a water park alone

56:50 - Flushing the poo wipes

1:00:39 - Halo: Campaign Evolved launches July 28

1:22:01 - Persona 4 Revival + Persona 6

1:39:09 - Kingdom Hearts Collection + IV

1:53:15 - Fable 4 Release Date

2:01:34 - State of Decay 3

2:10:37 - Senua

2:15:49 - Crazy Taxi: World Tour

2:23:36 - Join Us

2:26:41 - Final Fantasy Resonance

2:30:25 - Magicians: The Devils Deal

2:34:39 - Castlevania: Belmont's Curse

2:36:33 - Spyro: A Realm Beyond

2:42:53 - Thief remaster

2:45:18 - Muramasa

2:47:25 - Tales of Eternia Remastered

2:49:05 - Mina the Hollower surpasses 500,000 copies sold

2:49:53 - New PS+ Game Catalog titles

2:52:52 - What We're Playing

3:10:23 - Top moments of SGF season

3:16:48 - Xbox and exclusivity

3:55:41 - The Order 1886 Comeback?

4:04:12 - Destiny frustration

4:22:55 - Beating ritual

4:27:37 - Where is Naughty Dog?

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Nicholas Renaud

Love you guys! Thank you keep it up. Dustin, all the world’s best for you and your family.

IronLion44

Colin please listen to the new Sublime album. In a world of shit music coming out this is truly a gem.

Cloud

Colin could learn something from Chris about fulfilling the spirit of the bet!

ZombiesNJ

Love the STP lyrics 🥰💯🤘🏻🎸

Vladimir Grabbinmikov

They aren’t going to do a fucking thing to Halo 2. They couldn’t even figure out how to add a battle pass to it in MCC but Reach, 1, 3, and 4 got one.

Supes

Chris with the "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" reference in his letter to Dustin. A+ 10/10 no notes

Unemployable troon

This is going to be a banger of an episode, can’t wait!

Jared Clark

Thank you for your service Dustin 🫡. Til next time!

BigDumbStupidIdiot

The only way I can see XBOX becoming a true competitor to Nintendo, PlayStation and Steam is to undercut the PS6's price. Even if they stripped Helix down to its bones, I don't think they can get it under even $800. Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond truly fucked the hardware

ChaosZwei+5

Those letter were actually so sweet. God bless you and your family Dustin enjoy the joys of fatherhood

Geo_AW

4 hours holy banger

NUTSO JIMBO

Best of luck Dustin! Freddy Furman will be here soon.

Russell Cottrell-Garrett

The Downton Abby thing made me chuckle - I live literally 15 minutes walk from there. If I walk up the hill behind my house I can see it. Anyone visiting there in future is welcome to reach out to me and we can go for a beer or whatever!

McJelq

Casually blue balling us all by not doing a Pragmata discussion

Tanner Triv

Chris’ letter to Dustin had me cackling like a moron in my car

SL

Im not sure what upset Colin about the use of ‘modern classic’ in the Persona press release. It’s a fairly common phrase. Whether or not Persona 4 IS a modern classic is certainly up for debate…

Paul R.

Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Furman! It's a cliche but, be sure to enjoy every minute - Even the hard ones. Tiny humans grow very quickly and you never get yesterday's version back. Take care

Michael

Dustin congrats on the sex.

Bisexual Lighting Rigger

Anything is possible but I think they would have to be willing to take massive massive losses over many years to become competitive again. I don't think Microsoft is willing to do that, even though they could. The state of hardware pricing is putting everything on notice. Even the PS6 is going to be a hard sell at whatever astronomical price they decide to put it at.

Cai

I think he just read it as if the game is a mordern rpg AND a classic rpg, which are two different things. Obviously the intended meaning is a relatively new game that already has classic status.

John

Xbox’s “strategy” makes no sense. So they’re going to flip-flop and do bait-and-switches on these games and start annoying the PlayStation audience, the larger audience and frankly the audience that gives them a better shot at generating revenue when compared to buying habits of Xbox players — at a time where Xbox is admitting that they’re hemorrhaging money? All the meanwhile making last-minute moves to appease a small/vocal group of Xbox players that are screaming about exclusives? Real genius C-suite they’ve got over there. PlayStation execs have made some real baffling decisions and crucial mistakes over the past 3-5 years, but at least they don’t put their foot in their mouths literally every time they open it to speak.

Zachary

Congrats Dustin and Holly! You are going to be amazing parents ❤️

Alan

You’re crazy Dustin, that Fable combat looked so fun.

Ryan Smith

Colin has the sexiest voice on the network imo

Soulful Bison

The water park i went to as a kid was called Wet & Wild

latenitecali

"bad rng" is my new favorite insult.

SL

This doesn't seem particularly difficult to parse. The new xbox management clearly think the previous management was totally wrong in their philosophy and strategy. They believe that Xbox is hemoragging money BECAUSE of the previous management's ideas, not in spite of. It's not a 'flip-flop' if it's not the same decision makers making the change in direction. For lack of a better analogy, this feels like a new GM taking over a sports team after the last GM failed to get the job done. You can't ascribe anything the previous team did to the new team... except Matt Booty, who seems able to glom onto and cheerlead any strategy without shame. I do not think they care about annoying the Playstation audeience, nor should they. The idea that Playstation owners are going to broadly boycott games like Halo: Combat Evolved or Forza 6 because the next games might not come to Playstation is a fantasy. Most people buy games cause they want to have fun with those games, not to send some message of investment to the publisher. As far as catering to a small/vocal group, Xbox has to so long as they intend to release a new console. Because the small/vocal/hardcore group will always be the ones buying a new console at launch, regardless of platform affiliation.

ChaosZwei+5

All the games to choose and you choose thief 2014 why Chris?! Thief 1 and 2 are easily the best stealth games ever made how have you not played them they been right there in steam for a minute and only need some light modding that takes like five minutes.

SL

Thief 1 and 2 are god-tier games, but Deadly Shadows gets unfair hate.

ChaosZwei+5

True it's still a great game but not genre defining all timer classics like the first two. Certainly better than 2014 by a wide margin that's for sure

Jack Wittich

Hey guys, just a quick clarification on the Kingdom Hearts development team. After Kingdom Hearts 2, a lot of the developers from that team went on to do different projects at Square Enix. Those guys that worked on KH1 and 2 are now helping with FF7R. Before KH3, the "Osaka Team" responsible for all the spinoff KH games took over as the main Kingdom Hearts team, which is why every game After KH2 feels floaty and "different" from the earlier games.

ChaosZwei+5

Absolutely cannot wait for persona 6. 4 is my favorite but the third semester of p5 is the best the series has ever been. I'm pretty confident it will be the best persona yet. It's a real shame there's a completely pointless and stupid remake making this long awaited game take even longer to make.

Tyrone Yhip

Absolutely love the letters to Dustin 👏🏾👏🏾❤️❤️

JB

Unsubscribe strike notice due to soccer

Toretto

Best wishes to Dustin and Holly! Enjoy every moment of the early days of parenthood, it’s truly a blessing.

Cruising In Action

About the Xbox exclusivity, my only question is based on Project Helix, which is supposedly a powerful, premium product that’s supposed to exceed the $1000 price point. Are they really going to make games exclusive to something that expensive? To me it sounds like future Xbox exclusives are DOA.

Izzy Smalls

Microsoft is such a bipolar ass company. It is funny how many times i see a sponsored ad of their games on the PS store while they tip toe around being fully 3rd party.

Addison117

Infamous first light was another great smaller game that reused the same map and was shorter, unfortunately we never got another game in that franchise.

Billy but not so Talented

The craziest thing about Xbox is I had an Xbox one day one (first console I bought with my own money) then traded it a year or two later for a PS4 and then built my first PC a few years after that and the only thing I've missed is Halo 5 & Rare Replay. So for over 10 years at this point they've had no reason to get one unless you're a console only guy. Even crazier was I would've played 5 at my buddy's place but it didn't have split screen so I've never tried the campaign.

MnTwinsfan92

I haven't listened yet, but that's a huge bummer! Colin, Chris, Matty have all played it (and Brad is like 1/2 way)

Aaron

Another SGF and Xbox having the best show absolutely love to see it.

Subeg

I almost shed a thug tear hearing the letters* to Dustin

Screwed Mcfucked

I wish that game was more approachable. (I know it's a short story first) I hesitate to pretend a modern take on it would be remotely feasible, but more people should be aware of that story and world

Screwed Mcfucked

Since the "definitive" version is a Vita game, I certainly wouldn't call it a retro classic. Although we are on the cusp of that. God why.

Xbox's Sloppy Seconds

I nearly pissed myself during that Milo segment 🤣 'he remembers where you've been on January 6th'

Taco Overlord

Did you boys hear the rumour that the budget for E Day is 400 million dollars. It will not be able to make that back on just Xbox, no shot.

VanB-Boy 4 life

Congrats Dustin. I’m sure people have given some parenting advice, and you may be annoyed by it, but as a father of two, aged 8 and 16, I have some for you. Sleep schedule. This is critical when they’re young. We were religious about this with both kids. 7pm is bedtime; as a result, they would consistently sleep through the night, usually a solid 12 hours. It also gives you and your wife time to yourselves and lets you unwind. Kids can consume you, and this little step can go a very long way. To this day, our 8 year old goes to bed around 7-730 and sleeps until 7 am.

Max Stahl

How animated Colin gets over Xbox is...interesting. it's almost disdainful, but maybe its just about the judgment they're displaying rather than the brand itself, which is disdain I appreciate. I suppose that if exclusivity was stuck with and smarter decisions were made, years ago, Xbox would be doing plenty better. They're trying to put the genie and his dog back in the bottle, and may succeed somewhat, but they shouldn't be in this position. They do have the advantage of unlimited money, though! It's ridiculous they could probably get away with it all, but they just may, even if they look stupid along the way.

David Seger

I do not understand why Colin gets so intense about Xbox. It is very odd and kinda ruins the mood

Terry Atkinson

Miss you already Dustin. Enjoy the poop machine

Terry Atkinson

Can't wait for the Dukes and Colin. It's the hot topic at the moment. Articles on Push Square and Pure XBOX and let's not forget the 100 videos on it from Dreamcast Guy

David Seger

As a Philadelphian I can say they have nothing on eagles fans, but too their credit they do bring it

VanB-Boy 4 life

Colin, I just got the platinum for First light, and didn’t have any issues.

The Comedian

Why is the internet not going crazy for all these persona 4 “remakes” like they did with TLOU?

SL

Correct. At this point it's clear raw revenue/profit aren't the sole motivators for the decisions Xbox's new management is making re: exclusivity.

Supes

yeah, even as someone who enjoys old-school point-and-click adventures, I found it tough to crack into-- It's almost impossible to beat without a guide. and yeah, hard to imagine a modern reimagining. I guess the obvious "commercial" direction would be like a System Shock or Dead Space style sci-fi survival horror action game, although that'd sort of undercut the sheer terror of how omnipotent AM is supposed to be, and I imagine it'd still have to be watered down somewhat.

zepplinmike

“Flush the wipes” says the non-homeowner.

Gal Sharpton

Splash down. Lived across the street at one point

Taylor Martin

Excellent tribute to Dustin! Well deserved

Save The Game Media

Just FYI - State of Decay 3 was dated for 2027. Seemed like that detail was missed in the discussion

Justin Soprano

Im sorry but throw it in the trashcan beside the toilet is 20x worse. I only use wipes when camping cause thats just fucked.

Glen Yelenovic

The monopoly with credit cards totally depletes the purpose. Being the banker and playing monopoly taught me how to handle money and make change etc.

zepplinmike

If it really bothers you that much you can put a small bag in the trashcan and use a disposable glove to pull it out and throw it away elsewhere daily. As Colin said, there's barely anything on the wipes, not enough to smell like anything other than the wipe itself (and you can even use a small trashcan with a lid). I'm a germaphobe generally and don't see an issue here, but I'm also a parent who dealt with diapers a few years back in a nursery trashcan that contained actual real smelly solid waste. Anyway, if you are a homeowner and have to shell out thousands of dollars for some home repair, you'll quickly see the value in not destroying your pipes or selfishly clogging up your neighborhood's sewage system. Sounds like you don't use them at all unless camping, but it's really not a big deal to use them with a trashcan.

Walk Forward Cutscene

Excellent job by Chris to cherry-pick the Campaign Evolved criticism. He completely ignored how horrible those Grunts are animated at the start of AOTCR

Walk Forward Cutscene

Obviously a SS+ where Colin re-states the same things he’s been saying about Xbox for years is much more important /s

Walk Forward Cutscene

Deadly Shadows is fantastic if you play with the seamless world patch. I’m sure those loading screens to accommodate the original Xbox were annoying in 2004.

Beef Burka

The Order: 1886 was a great looking game, the story was interesting, but it was not a good game overall. The context sensitive stealth was horrible, the quick time boss fights were relics of the PS2. It isn't even that it was just too short, it just was not a good game.

Aaron

Dustin’s most hyped games Japanese, Japanese and Japanese

David S

best wishes Dustin! I hope everything goes well for you . I thought that Colin's letter to you, in particular, was very beautifully written.

David P

As PS player who jump shipped to Xbox in 2019, I feel I'm being driven to PC when I never really wanted that. I'm really tired of both companies axing the studios that made games I loved. And yes I bought the Japan studio games, and hi fi rush.

Jason Thompson

My sister also had that board game Colin’s talking about. It was called Shop Til You Drop they made a game show out of it also or vice versa.

NeO JD

I use wipes first and then dry off with toilet paper. Cleaner and less irritation.

Wayde

Mall madness is the game you are thinking of